Fred Macmurray, Barbara Stanwyck, Edward G. Robinson
Plot
An insurance representative is seduced by a dissatisfied housewife into a scheme of insurance fraud and murder that arouses the suspicion of his colleague, a claims investigator.
FR #478 | Movie | Romance, Comedy | USA | English, German
Director
Frank Capra
Writer
Julius J. Epstein, Joseph Kesselring
Cast
Cary Grant, Priscilla Lane, Raymond Massey
Plot
Mortimer Brewster, a Brooklyn writer of books on the futility of marriage, risks his reputation after he decides to tie the knot. Things grow complicated when he learns that his beloved maiden aunts Abby and Martha are serial murd...
FR #928 | Movie | Biography, Drama | Russia | Russian
Director
Sergei Eisenstein
Writer
Sergei Eisenstein
Cast
Nikolay Cherkasov, Lyudmila Tselikovskaya, Serafima Birman
Plot
During the early part of his reign, Ivan the Terrible faces betrayal from the aristocracy and even his closest friends as he seeks to unite the Russian people.
FR #975 | Movie | Crime, Drama | USA | English, Italian
Director
George Cukor
Writer
John Van Druten, Walter Reisch, John L. Balderston
Cast
Charles Boyer, Ingrid Bergman, Joseph Cotten
Plot
Ten years after her aunt was murdered in their London home, a woman returns from Italy in the 1880s to resume residence with her new husband. His obsessive interest in the house rises from a secret that may require driving his wif...
FR #1706 | Movie | War, Drama | USA | English, French
Director
Alfred Hitchcock
Writer
John Steinbeck, Jo Swerling, Alfred Hitchcock
Cast
Tallulah Bankhead, John Hodiak, Walter Slezak
Plot
Several survivors of a torpedoed merchant ship in World War II find themselves in the same lifeboat with one of the crew members of the U-boat that sank their ship.
FR #2209 | Movie | Romance, Drama | Sweden, Mexico | Swedish, Latin
Director
Alf Sjoberg
Writer
Ingmar Bergman
Cast
Stig Jarrel, Alf Kjellin, Mai Zetterling
Plot
An idealistic adolescent suffering under the thumb of a sadistic schoolmaster falls in love with a loose girl who is bullied and tormented by another lover.
FR #3941 | Movie | Fantasy, Horror | USA | English, Spanish
Director
Lewis Allen
Writer
Dodie Smith, Frank Partos, Dorothy Macardle
Cast
Ray Milland, Ruth Hussey, Donald Crisp
Plot
A composer and his sister discover that the reason they are able to purchase a beautiful gothic seacoast mansion very cheaply is the house's unsavory past.
Stephen Neale has just been released from an asylum during World War II in England when he accidentally stumbles onto a deadly Nazi spy plot and tries to stop it.
FR #4231 | Movie | Musical, Drama | Germany | German
Director
Helmut Kautner
Writer
Helmut Kautner, Richard Nicolas
Cast
Hans Albers, Ilse Werner, Hans Sohnker
Plot
The film tells the story of the blond "singing sailor" Hannes Kröger who works in a St. Pauli club on the Große Freiheit 7, and falls in love with a girl. But she prefers his rival Willem and Hannes returns to the sea.
FR #4951 | Movie | Film-Noir, Drama | USA | English, German
Director
Fred Zinnemann
Writer
Helen Deutsch, Anna Seghers
Cast
Spencer Tracy, Signe Hasso, Hume Cronyn
Plot
In 1936, seven prisoners escape from a concentration camp. The Nazis put up seven crosses for demonstrative executions. This story about one of the fugitives, who relies on own courage and compassion of people to avoid the seventh...
Edmund L. Hartmann, Roy William Neill, Paul Gangelin
Cast
Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce, Gerald Hamer
Plot
After a gentlewoman is found dead with her throat torn out, the villagers blame a supernatural monster. But Sherlock Holmes, who gets drawn into the case from nearby Quebec, suspects a human murderer.
Nick, a private detective, visits his hometown with wife Nora. Locals believe he's investigating a case. When someone is murdered on his doorstep, Nick gets embroiled in solving the crime despite intending a vacation.
Just after World War I, the Gibbons family moves to a nice house in the suburbs. They live an ordinary life throughout the years, but everything changes when World War II breaks out.
FR #5469 | Movie | Romance, Drama | Mexico | Spanish
Director
Emilio Fernandez
Writer
Emilio Fernandez, Mauricio Magdaleno
Cast
Dolores Del Rio, Pedro Armendariz, Alberto Galan
Plot
In Xochimilco 1909, MarÃa Candelaria and Lorenzo Rafael long for getting married but the odds are against them. MarÃa Candelaria is segregated for being a prostitute's child and the couple faces the greed of Mr. Damian, the town's...
Popular and beautiful Fanny Trellis enters into a loveless marriage with an older man, Jewish banker Job Skeffington, in order to save her beloved brother Trippy from an embezzlement charge.
Silently, a woman wakes on a beach as the tides go in reverse. Her dreamscape unfolds as she tries to locate a chess piece traveling from the beach to a party to a country road and then back.
FR #6439 | Movie | History, Drama | USA | English, Mandarin
Director
Mervyn Leroy
Writer
Dalton Trumbo, Ted W. Lawson, Bob Considine
Cast
Spencer Tracy, Van Johnson, Robert Walker
Plot
In the wake of Pearl Harbor, a young lieutenant leaves his expectant wife to volunteer for a secret bombing mission which will take the war to the Japanese homeland.
FR #6732 | Movie | Drama | Germany | German, Swedish
Director
Veit Harlan
Writer
Rudolf G. Binding, Alfred Braun, Veit Harlan
Cast
Carl Raddatz, Kristina Soderbaum, Irene Von Meyendorff
Plot
Idle intellectuals Albrecht, Octavia and Äls, are given to quoting and emulating their philosopher hero, Nietzsche. Albrecht later contracts typhus bringing the foster child gravely ill Äls out of an infected area.
FR #8725 | Movie | Comedy, Fantasy | Spain, India | Spanish, Hindi
Director
Edgar Neville
Writer
Emilio Carrere, Jose Santugini, Edgar Neville
Cast
Antonio Casal, Isabel De Pomes, Guillermo Marin
Plot
In 19th-century Madrid a young man plays roulette. A mysterious character helps him by pointing with his walking stick the next number on which the ball will fall; the protagonist is the only one able to see him. The mysterious ma...
FR #9464 | Movie | Biography, Drama | USA | English
Director
Lloyd Bacon
Writer
Mary C. Mccall Jr., Jules Schermer, Edward Doherty
Cast
Anne Baxter, Thomas Mitchell, Selena Royle
Plot
The lives of a close-knit group of five brothers growing up in Iowa during the days of the Great Depression, leading to them joining the US Navy and meeting their destiny on the USS Juneau in 1942 during WWII.
FR #9485 | Movie | Comedy | Russia | Russian, Georgian
Director
Isidor Annensky
Writer
Anton Chekhov, Isidor Annensky
Cast
Aleksey Gribov, Faina Ranevskaya, Zoya Fyodorova
Plot
Petty bourgeois Zhigalovs, whose daughter-in-law Dasha is being extradited, find out to their horror that the official Aplombov (Erast Garin), who had lunch with them daily and proved himself to be a fiance, is not going to marry ...
The wife of a mechanic and former fighter pilot falls in love with the idea of flying herself. This soon becomes an obsession and she undertakes a lofty feat: the longest solo flight ever made by a woman.
FR #9964 | Movie | Comedy, Fantasy | USA | English, Italian
Director
Rene Clair
Writer
Dudley Nichols, Rene Clair, Lord Dunsany
Cast
Dick Powell, Linda Darnell, Jack Oakie
Plot
A young turn-of-the-century newspaper man finds he can get hold of the next day's paper. This brings more problems than fortune, especially as his new girlfriend is part of a phony clairvoyant act.
FR #11201 | Movie | Musical, Drama | USA | English
Director
Joseph Barbera, William Hanna
Writer
Otto Englander
Cast
Billy Bletcher, William Hanna, Harry Lang
Plot
Spike the bulldog, grateful to Jerry for getting him out of the dogcatcher's van, offers to help the little mouse any time he whistles. Tom, Jerry's feline tormentor, seeks to overcome this new disadvantage.
FR #11455 | Movie | Mystery, Drama | USA | English
Director
Edward A. Blatt
Writer
Daniel Fuchs, Sutton Vane
Cast
John Garfield, Paul Henreid, Sydney Greenstreet
Plot
Passengers on an ocean liner can't recall how they got on board or where they are going yet, oddly enough, it soon becomes apparent that they all have something in common.
FR #11702 | Movie | War, Drama | UK | English, French
Director
Carol Reed
Writer
Eric Ambler, Peter Ustinov, David Niven
Cast
David Niven, Stanley Holloway, James Donald
Plot
World War II drama that follows a group of British draftees, starting with their rigorous basic training, and ending with their deployment in North Africa.
FR #11704 | Movie | Animation, Short | USA | English
Director
Joseph Barbera, William Hanna
Writer
Jerry Mann
Cast
William Hanna, Jerry Mann
Plot
Tom inherits $1,000,000 from an eccentric aunt on the condition that he not harm any living thing - even a mouse. And guess which mouse keeps following him around and pointing this out to him?
FR #11728 | Movie | Short, War | UK | French, English
Director
Alfred Hitchcock
Writer
Arthur Calder-Marshall, Angus Macphail, J.O.C. Orton
Cast
John Blythe, Janique Joelle
Plot
A young Scottish R. A. F. Gunner is debriefed by French officials about his escape from occupied territory, and in particular one person who may or may not have been a German Agent.
FR #12698 | Movie | Comedy, Musical | USA | English
Director
Delmer Daves
Writer
Delmer Daves
Cast
Bette Davis, John Garfield, The Andrews Sisters
Plot
Two soldiers on leave spend three nights at a club offering free of charge food, dancing, and entertainment for servicemen on their way overseas. Club founders Bette Davis and John Garfield give talks on the history of the place.
A light-hearted satire of manners and morals telling the story of two sisters that fall in love with the other's boyfriend. Complications arise. Valentina Serova is a prim professor who sets out to teach army lieutenant Eugene Sam...
FR #14959 | Movie | Adventure, Comedy | USA | English
Director
David Butler, Sidney Lanfield
Writer
Don Hartman, Melville Shavelson, Everett Freeman
Cast
Bob Hope, Virginia Mayo, Walter Brennan
Plot
A cowardly actor and a runaway princess are voyaging on a ship that is captured by a notorious pirate who recently buried his treasure on a secretly mapped island.
FR #14966 | Movie | Animation, Action | USA | English
Director
Irving Rapper
Writer
Alan Le May, Harold M. Sherman, Harry Chandlee
Cast
Fredric March, Alexis Smith, Donald Crisp
Plot
The dramatized life of immortal humorist Samuel Langhorne Clemens, better known as Mark Twain, from his days as a riverboat pilot on the Mississippi River until his death in 1910 shortly after Halley's Comet returned.
FR #15214 | Movie | Romance, Drama | India | Hindi
Director
Amiya Chakrabarty
Cast
Ruma Guha Thakurta, Aga Jaan, Vikram Kapoor
Plot
A wealthy mill owner, Durgadas Prasad, hires a secretary to handle his office work. She falls in love with Billoo, who incidentally happens to be Durgadas' estranged grandson.
FR #15692 | Movie | Romance, Drama | USA | English, French
Director
Clarence Brown
Writer
Claudine West, Jan Lustig, George Froeschel
Cast
Irene Dunne, Alan Marshal, Roddy Mcdowall
Plot
Susan travels with her father to England for a vacation. Invited to a ball, Susan meets Sir John Ashwood and marries him after a whirlwind romance. However, American Susan never quite adjusts to life as a new member of the British...
Anup writes for a newspaper, and his sister is invited to a girl's birthday party by her rich friend Gopa. After she leaves the party, accused of being a thief, Gopa comes to the house to apologize and meets Anup. He refuses her p...
FR #16198 | Movie | Animation, Short | USA, UK | English
Director
Robert Clampett
Writer
Michael Sasanoff, Warren Foster
Cast
Mel Blanc, Arthur Q. Bryan
Plot
Elmer Fudd asks God when he will finally be able to catch Bugs. God tells him to look far into the future so he imagines a little Elmer still trying to catch a baby Bugs years later.
FR #16456 | Movie | Documentary, Short | USA | English
Director
Gjon MILI
Cast
Lester Young, George 'Red' Callender, Harry Edison
Plot
Created under the guidance of jazz impresario and Verve Records founder Norman Granz, this short captures the spontaneity of a jam session and is one of few film records of black jazzers of the day including tenor sax legend Leste...
FR #16995 | Movie | Comedy, Musical | Germany | German
Director
Georg Jacoby
Writer
Georg Jacoby, Janos Vaszary, Herbert Witt
Cast
Marika Rokk, Wolfgang Lukschy, Walter Muller
Plot
A revue star escapes her exhausting theatre life. By train she travels to the mountains. Alone in the wilderness and dressed only in her fur coat, she is rescued by two engineers.
FR #17944 | Movie | Crime, Drama | USA | English, German
Director
Raoul Walsh
Writer
Laszlo Vadnay, Max Brand, Joe May
Cast
Errol Flynn, Paul Lukas, Lucile Watson
Plot
After a career criminal is recaptured and knows he faces the guillotine, he offers to exchange his life for 100 hostages slated for execution by the Germans.
FR #17984 | Movie | Crime, Drama | Mexico | Spanish
Director
Miguel M. Delgado
Writer
Miguel M. Delgado, Jaime Salvador
Cast
Cantinflas, Jacqueline Dalya, Josefina Martinez
Plot
After failing as a waiter, Cantinflas gets a job as a bellboy in a fancy hotel, by recommendation of his girlfriend. He has to deal with posh people and even with the nobility. One day, an expensive and rare collar, property of a ...
FR #18700 | Movie | Comedy, Action | USA | English
Director
Jean Yarbrough, Erle C. Kenton
Writer
Hugh Wedlock Jr., Howard Snyder, John Grant
Cast
Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Marion Hutton
Plot
Two bumbling plumbers are hired by a socialite to fix a leak. A case of mistaken identity gets the pair an invitation to a fancy party and an entree into high society. As expected, things don't go too smoothly.
FR #19186 | Movie | Animation, Short | USA | English
Director
Jack King
Writer
Carl Barks, Bill Berg, Nick George
Cast
Billy Bletcher, James Macdonald, Clarence Nash
Plot
Ajax the killer gorilla had escaped from the zoo, As a prank, Donald and three nephews scared each other, But suddenly, the real Ajax appeared, So how can they subdue him?
FR #19472 | Movie | Crime, Drama | France | French
Director
Maurice Tourneur
Writer
Georges Simenon, Jean-Paul Le Chanois, Michel Duran
Cast
Albert Prejean, Santa Relli, Germaine Kerjean
Plot
A woman keeps coming to Quai Des Orfevres to see Inspector Maigret about disturbing events in her household.Maigret and his colleagues are annoyed, until this woman is found dead and they realize she was on to something.
Woven around the daily lives of two children, nine-year-old Nastenka and five-year-old Katia, this is a story of the 17 months' siege of Leningrad and of the people and families shattered by the war, their homes bombed and destroy...
FR #20469 | Movie | Romance, Musical | India | Hindi
Director
M. Sadiq
Writer
R.S. Choudhury, D.N. Madhok
Cast
Swaran Lata, Karan Dewan, Amir Banu
Plot
Govind and Gouri are childhood friends who love each other. But as they belong to different castes, they can't marry each other. When Gouri marries another person, things changes a lot.
Under snowing weather, a snowman gains a heart and comes to life. The cheerful snowman starts enjoying life, though he suffers a few misadventures. While exploring a human house, he learns how to use a calendar. He learns that it ...
